Al-Atwani: The 2025 budget will reach parliament early next year
Al-Atwani: The 2025 budget will reach parliament early next year
2024/10/21
The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al Atwani, confirmed that the government is working on preparing the basics of the 2025 budget to present it to the House of Representatives for study and voting.
A statement from his office, received by {Al Furat News}, stated that: “Al Atwani discussed with a delegation from the Adam Smith International Foundation a set of laws related to the development of the financial and banking system, today, Monday, at the headquarters of the Finance Committee in the Council building, where he reviewed important draft laws including the Securities and Commodities Law, the Banking Studies Center Law, and the Islamic Sukuk Investment Law, with the necessary amendments being made, indicating that these laws will be read in the upcoming sessions.
Al-Atwani stressed that “the aim of the amendments is to involve the concerned parties to ensure increased productivity and listen to various opinions to ensure their effective implementation.”
The statement added, “The organization of workshops in cooperation with the Law, Economy, and Investment Committees was also discussed to develop laws comprehensively, while hosting specialists to benefit from previous experiences. The mechanism for drafting federal budget texts, analyzing revenues and expenditures, and planning budget items and general programs were also addressed.”
Al-Atwani pointed out that “the government is working on preparing the basics of the 2025 budget to present it to the House of Representatives for study and voting on it,” anticipating that “it will reach the House of Representatives early next year,” indicating that “the government has begun meetings to structure the budget items.”
Regarding the oil dispute with the Kurdistan Region, Al-Atwani said that it “represents one of the most prominent problems facing the preparation of next year’s budget,” pointing out that “the committee’s efforts and efforts to resolve the dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, through meetings and shuttle meetings with representatives of the regional government and the federal government, and the points of contention have been identified and diagnosed by the committee, and the legal and constitutional path to overcome them has been determined; as we hope to reach a final agreement in the next stage, in order to resume the export of the region’s oil, in a way that ensures strengthening the state’s resources.”
alforatnews.iq
